💬 Quotes

"I am in a chaos of principles—groping in the dark—acting by instinct and not after example."

"The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."

"It is better to leave wisdom alone than to be crushed by it."

"We are a sorry, miserable lot, all of us. But we are a good-natured lot, and we have a certain beauty, too."

"I have been so much loved—that I have been ruined by it."

"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived."

"I’m not a hero. I’m just a girl who happens to be a telepath, and I’m tired of being used as a tool by people who don't care if I live or die."

"The thing about being a vampire is that you have all the time in the world to get even, and Eric Northman was a man who never forgot a slight."

"Humans think that just because we’re dead, we’ve lost the capacity for basic manners. It’s actually quite the opposite; we have nothing but time to practice them."

"My mind is a crowded, noisy, and often unkind place to be, and I would give anything for just one moment of absolute silence."

"There are things in this world that are far worse than death, and I have had the misfortune of meeting most of them in the last few months."

"You have a very dangerous habit of assuming that because someone is beautiful, they must also be good."

"It was just a room, but it was a room that had been lived in, and it had its own atmosphere, a stillness that had nothing to do with emptiness."

"The past is never really behind us, is it? It’s part of the present. It’s part of what we are."

"One day, when the light is right, I shall paint it. And then, at last, I shall be satisfied."

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"We are all of us alone, really, but some of us are better at pretending we aren't than others."

"Everything changes, and yet, in some strange way, nothing changes at all. We are simply carrying on, piece by piece, as those before us did."

"The truth, purely and simply, is rarely pure and never simple. But it's usually rather interesting."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true. It's called life."